Been busy...

Sorry for not updating this blog for such a long time, but making a stop-motion movie is quite an undertaking, we're about half way trough now so I think it would be in order to show some stills.

I'm very pleased with the overall design and feel we managed to capture. The hard thing is to keep motivation up when you're working 10-15 hour a day 7 days of the week...

I also have some vampire hunting accessories in the making, but more on that later...

Heavy- Music video

Before Christmas I made the props for Lauri Ylönen's (known from The Rasmus) newly released music video.

The props included a crazy one-man-band rig, a periscope, a hand puppet, a cage, a window, puppet hatching form an egg... I hope for more crazy work like this in the future.

The shoot was great fun too, despite having the occasional cockroach crawling up my arm.

I even did a bit of puppeteering.

Thanks to director Owe Lingvall and good luck to Lauri with his solo career!

Stop-motion time!

I have just started my examination project at school. Together with production Design student Cristoffer Ålund I will be making a one-of-a-kind stopmotion film. It's gonna be a lot of work and a lot of fun, as per usual... follow the process on this blog http://focus.gscept.com/seebreeze/

Metropolis firefighter helmet

A school project done over a year ago now, finally come around to post some pics...

I wanted to do a non military helmet in an Art Deco, Metropolis style. the base of it is made from a heat-and-shape sheet material called Airex. The helmet was used in this music vid too- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFEMmsdLteY Hope you like!

Théâtre Mécanique

I've been meaning to post this for a while. It's some sort of mechanical theatre, or Kinetoscope. or at least, that's what it's suppose be.

it was made as a prop for a music video for the Norwegian band Tristania. Many thanks to director Jakob Arevärn for giving me creative freedom with this.

It's so rewarding to see things you made with the right set and light, even if the music could be better...

Anatomy and clay

Spent the whole summer sculpting, I took a two part course of anatomical sculpting. first we made an écorché, a 75cm tall anatomical figure featuring every single bone and muscle in the body. the second half was to make a sculpture from your own mind. this is the result.

Many thanks to our talented teacher Jim Vikström who boosted my anatomical knowlege by several hundred percent.

In other news...

I've done my first commercial job, I made the props for a music video to the Finnish metal band Circle of Contempt. I only had about three weeks to make this crazy "board game" thing.

I pretty much had free hands with the design, and did what i could with scrap, old dolls and anything else fit for recycling.

It's a bit of a nod to the surreal animations of the Brothers Quay.

There were a ton of mechanical effects controlled with magnets, wires, rods and stop-motion.

It's not really my kind of music but you can watch the finished video below-